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Dumpy, 55-year-old Louie Lurie made a fine bargain-even for him. He paid $1,525,000 for the land, took up the estate's debt to Hale's at its $350,000 face value and, as he puts it, "The building itself is worth a million dollars today...
...Hale-Penney operation was atypical Louie Lurie coup...
...World War I Louie Lurie had settled in San Francisco. As he tells it now, his formula was beautifully simple: "I'd buy lots south of Market Street for $5,000, put up a $10,000 building and sell the deal for $18,000-$20,000." In that way he 1) put up 259 buildings, including a score of San Francisco's cinemas; 2) kept his own growing fortune strictly liquid. The Hale-Penney deal did nothing to harm his finances...
Columbus' commandant, Colonel Louie Clifford Mallory, set his training director, 40-year-old Lieut. Colonel Joseph B. Duckworth, to find the nearest thing there is to an antidote for accidents. Georgia-born Joe Duckworth, who had piled up 12,500 hours' flying time, mostly in a decade of service with Eastern Air Lines, soon decided that too often the teachers were undertaught...
...asked yourself that before, and the answer isn't far away. You, who have chased jazz through dives you would never ordinarily looked at twice, who have chased jazz through dingy little second stores and haggled over the price of a beat-up Louie Hot Five, who have chased jazz from record store to record store after a cutout Goodman Trio, you have your experience to answer...